Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives

• Hardcover | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• Trick-or-treating. Flower girls. Bedtime stories. Bar and bat mitvah. In a nation of increasing ethnic, familial, and technological complexity, the pa... Lees meer

Spectral America

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

• Paperback | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense , this ... Lees meer

Goddesses and Monsters

Jane Caputi

• Paperback | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, ... Lees meer

The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature

Brian J Frost

• Paperback | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He id... Lees meer

Profiles of Popular Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• From Hank Williams to hip hop, Aunt Jemima to the Energizer Bunny, scrap-booking to NASCAR racing, Profiles of Popular Culture cuts a generous swath a... Lees meer

Baseball and Country Music

Don Cusic

• Paperback | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• The histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks through most of the twentieth century. America's sport and America's music moved fr... Lees meer

Images of the Corpse

• Paperback | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• This compelling book brings together physicians, artists, and scholars of film, literature, philosophy, art, and politics to discuss the representatio... Lees meer

Cannibal Fictions

Jeff Berglund

• Hardcover | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• Objects of fear and fascination, cannibals have long signified an elemental otherness, an existence outside the bounds of normalcy. In the American im... Lees meer